Land8 | Jon Quackenbush | Activity https://land8.com/members/jonquackenbush/activity/ Activity feed for Jon Quackenbush. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:43:16 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9c67bec51c1c6ca34f1c6ce41ac4072b Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic I love the smell of hipocracy in the morning in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/i-love-the-smell-of-hipocracy-in-the-morning/#post-163636 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:37:58 +0000 The greenest building is an existing building.

]]> 0 38219d5cc30ae74bf4a80566cac50430 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/#post-159902 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:41:06 +0000 will do.

]]> 0 e03cfaa1163c963b16ff15e4ef120f35 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/#post-159904 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:15:31 +0000 You have way too much faith in the system man and I am not sure why.  My “cynicism” has been cultivated over many years, as I have witnessed the whole sale purchase of our government.  That story you mentioned about your congressman is touching, but politicians are gifted as selling a narrative so I would observe caution.  Are all politicians cr…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbf775cdaca0de7cb31a9a52e605c233 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/2/#post-159910 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:33:43 +0000 The country we actually live in contradicts your entire position.  If we lived in the America of the textbooks you read in high school, then sure, you would be 100% right.  But we live in a more scurilous version.  We only have the illusion of choice at this point.  Look at congress, it is all millionaires and mostly white and are easily bou…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b68af387f936d684e92dcdcf5b951a3 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/2/#post-159912 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:55:47 +0000 It was a ‘simplistic’ comment but it was based on the notion that the civil rights movement achieved a legal victory, not an economic one. For the bottom two-thirds of African-Americans, you can argue (from an economic standpoint) that life is worse today than it was when Martin Luther King marched in Selma in 1965. King understood that racial…[Read more]

]]> 0 04bff16551ac6ea10cd6d5572a260871 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/3/#post-159922 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:42:53 +0000

Just be mindful of what you are fighting for! Do we really want socialism as the answer here?

    Democratic Socialism actually sounds pretty good to me.  I would yield to MLK’s vision of society over Bill Gates & Steve Jobs any day.  Free market capitalism has proven to be inhumane time and time again.

        We have a country where Bill…

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]]> 0 cbfffe9c098f2aa6d0c242631c953211 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/3/#post-159925 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:30:06 +0000 He isn’t too blind to see it, he either disagrees or isn’t looking.  He is one of the 99% even if he doesn’t know it or believe it.  I am fighting for him too.
There are within the movement, many camps and not all of them are centered around jobs, though they all are focused on some inequality and/or injustice.  Want to really get a grip on it…[Read more]

]]> 0 481a747350c4d8838d4232c7571735c2 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/3/#post-159932 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:03:26 +0000 Exactly.
These inequities are what drive the OWS protests. People don’t want handouts. It’s not a class uprising and we don’t want civil war — we want just the opposite. We want everyone to live in the same country, and live by the same rules. It’s amazing that some people think that that’s asking a lot.

]]> 0 50cef8e998421f76e9f528f599773a2d Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/4/#post-159936 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:59:51 +0000

]]> 0 a09b7bcd65f7b71281a8cadb8a96c05a Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/4/#post-159945 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:23:43 +0000 Chris Hedges gets it.  He is the most coherent and inspiring voice of the movement, and I find great inspiration in his words.
As far as your questions, I honestly have no idea and am not really qualified to say.  I do know that settling for a seat at the table is paramount to giving up.  I don’t want a seat at the table, I want a new table.  I b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1be4158e36f35c2841168f905463009b Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/4/#post-159947 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:51:27 +0000

The scary thing is that the consensus of the OWS people seems to be that the government (politicians) should step in and take over these private institutions of which they are responsible for corrupting.

 
Where did you gleam this insight?  I am part of OWS and I think electoral politics is a farce.  I have no faith in the system as curr…[Read more]

]]> 0 20eb37ac327418bc23fc91afe097212d Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/5/#post-159956 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:00:52 +0000 This is a perfect economic summary of what fuels the growing body that is the Occupy movement, thanks.
The power elite have desperately tried to tar the movement with a series of calumnies, branding protesters as hippies, anti-Semites, drug addicts, leftists, anarchists and communists. They have so far been unable to blunt the fundamental truth…[Read more]

]]> 0 81aec398ba42ac3d38c3e4a793f217fd Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Swiss Approach to Urban Sprawl Issues in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/swiss-approach-to-urban-sprawl-issues/#post-159637 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:46:38 +0000 I love this stuff, thanks for this!

]]> 0 177c16a99cab327e1d68343262325594 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/7/#post-159984 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:34:45 +0000 “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism,” ML King said, “but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God’s children.”

]]> 0 b03d401be6808f8274f663b60455362d Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/7/#post-159986 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:16:30 +0000 Did you expect an essay as a response?  I could go into more depth, however that isn’t required to make my point.  Do you need statistics to reinforce my “platitudes”, because I am capable of reciting them for you.Truth is, I am not that smart.  I have fed the beast for a majority of my life, and I am full of regret as a result.  I have sup…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4c323231abee5985f05f4816cb99f88 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/7/#post-159988 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:27:40 +0000 First of all that is impossible, and second, mockery is not flattering, nor does it contribute to the debate.

]]> 0 23b9f40e574f862f4a1ef6712fccfa95 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/7/#post-159989 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:20:03 +0000 It is quite simple.

  • To stop the disemboweling every last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from education to Social Security
  • To stop letting the sick die.
  • To stop letting the poor go hungry.
  • To stop letting families be tossed in the street.
  • To stop letting the unemployed rot.
  • To stop children in the inner city or rural wastelands…

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]]> 0 c9e04bd6f12967df41f6c1e1df859c5b Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Occupy Wall Street - Are you with it? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/occupy-wall-street-are-you-with-it/page/7/#post-159992 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:51:28 +0000 Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope. They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or comfortable, that it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finally faith. They sleep on concrete every night. Their clothes are soiled. They have eaten more bagels and peanut butter than they ever thought…[Read more]

]]> 0 124bb77bae57637f1ca623c14621b79d Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic A View of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) from across a lot of ocean (think east of wherever you are Stateside) in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/a-view-of-occupy-wall-street-ows-from-across-a-lot-of-ocean-think-east-of-wherever-you-are-stateside/#post-159663 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:29:37 +0000

What kind of nation is it that spends far more to kill enemy combatants and Afghan and Iraqi civilians than it does to help its own citizens who live below the poverty line? What kind of nation is it that permits corporations to hold sick children hostage while their parents frantically bankrupt themselves to save their sons and daughters? What…

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]]> 0 0a4287c6d1166696c2c6d6993c76271d Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Digital Portfolios in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/digital-portfolios/#post-159846 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:01:09 +0000 Knowledge is never wasted, even if you don’t utilize it with your current employer.  While I have never been asked to make a website for my firm, I have used that to make one for my wife’s small business, and a band.

]]> 0 2ea3f9794e1598a94683f4e679527ebf Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Digital Portfolios in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/digital-portfolios/#post-159847 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:49:29 +0000 absolutely. it is much easier to remember and type.  frustrating a potential employer is the last thing you want to do.

]]> 0 3ebebdfb9724c51c005407cde429c7ec Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Digital Portfolios in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/digital-portfolios/#post-159852 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:27:45 +0000 they do cost if you personalize your web address, because it is better to have a http://www.your-name.com instead of a http://www.wix.com/blah blah
 

]]> 0 fc9782b0c20f3664ed6d2526f39d9dac Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Digital Portfolios in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/digital-portfolios/#post-159853 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:26:08 +0000 The domain name is a couple of bucks a month, and the premium site hosting is $10-15 a month, so there is some cost.  As far as being complicated, it isn’t and there are walk throughs on how to do it so it is fairly dummy proof.  I didn’t watermark anything because most of my images are owned by the firms that I worked with when I designed it, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fa532b63af3d43f11ccf2f85cc7ca61 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Digital Portfolios in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/digital-portfolios/#post-159856 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:39:12 +0000 That is what I did and it worked very well.  I purchased my domain name from go daddy so it is personalized and put it out there.
My bosses saw all my work before I even stepped in the door and were impressed that I made my own website (I didn’t let them know how easy it was).  This gives me the ability to make sure anyone who sees my portfolio v…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad63d20613c46dad3a6fb4b43b1c284b Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Any body knows where are the best places to travel? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/any-body-knows-where-are-the-best-places-to-travel/#post-160113 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:20:45 +0000

]]> 0 c5a987d5e50d479f0589420f72e5b9e0 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic NYC Times Square Permanent Redeign in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/nyc-times-square-permanent-redeign/#post-160256 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:32:13 +0000 I would have found space for 3-4 burr oaks, making sure they had enough growing medium and protection to survive.  In 40 years, they would make an awesome space.

]]> 0 7fe222a983fca44d2ca426502c8c1d20 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic quotations, sayings, proverbs..........Landscape Architecture in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/quotations-sayings-proverbs-landscape-architecture/#post-160283 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:51:12 +0000 I also add the entire Thanksgiving Address by theHaudenosaunee, and the Words that Come Before All Else.

]]> 0 43bbc0b6068cd005570a978d89688e71 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic quotations, sayings, proverbs..........Landscape Architecture in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/quotations-sayings-proverbs-landscape-architecture/#post-160285 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:43:23 +0000 I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell

]]> 0 a8952e49c001fd50bf16d5a0cc43d8a0 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic The value of a tree in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/the-value-of-a-tree/#post-160183 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:48:54 +0000 I don’t like how they showed in the picture a ginko tree, which I consider worthless…Great article though.  I am thinking about starting a non-profit urban forestry alliance in my city focusing on the health and viability a healthy tree canopy all the way to the ground… this could be good ammunition.

]]> 0 11bdd6c2096a9a7feb178be65feda0a2 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Plant sourcing resource in the forum PLANTS & HORTICULTURE https://land8.com/forums/topic/plant-sourcing-resource/#post-161429 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:09:17 +0000 No one in my area uses it yet.

]]> 0 c813c4ddebfe42cb023e0b72361cdaef Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Architects venturing further into landscape design... in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/#post-160493 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:24:24 +0000 “We don’t want any trees in front of the building, it will block the view of it… how about a dwarf shrub or some juniper?”

]]> 0 370827c82e2e666ce0e143012ff31888 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Architects venturing further into landscape design... in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/#post-160495 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:15:59 +0000 I see.
I prefer stouts and porters, so microbrews are the only way to go.  Guinness is absolute crap.
 

]]> 0 19b76e852b552c0e15e7bad5780231cf Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Parking Lot Landscape Islands, what is the best approach? in the forum PLANTS & HORTICULTURE https://land8.com/forums/topic/parking-lot-landscape-islands-what-is-the-best-approach/#post-160763 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:25:05 +0000 Bees don’t bother people, you have to go out of your way to get stung, like slapping the queen.

]]> 0 f716d362cd154690b8b0f688ff7e0f96 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Parking Lot Landscape Islands, what is the best approach? in the forum PLANTS & HORTICULTURE https://land8.com/forums/topic/parking-lot-landscape-islands-what-is-the-best-approach/#post-160764 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:22:40 +0000 which is common practice…

]]> 0 44405fa75c72eb1ec5555ea296f1cade Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Architects venturing further into landscape design... in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/#post-160498 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:13:57 +0000 Obscure micro-brews tend to be the best.Just sayin’.

]]> 0 94c02aa1b8958f48fb87e8f8e33522e0 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Playground Redesign in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/playground-redesign/#post-160469 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:49:15 +0000 When I was a kid, I liked to run, jump, climb and hide, normally not in the same place twice.  Today’s safe play equipment would have bore me very quickly, and I would have begged to either leave or found an actual challenge elsewhere.

]]> 0 8787cf6623d8eb3f68f385dc9cdbbc5d Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic A review of the 9/11 memorial by good old Wytold in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/a-review-of-the-911-memorial-by-good-old-wytold/#post-160574 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:52:01 +0000 My personal preference would have been an act of defiance.  I would have created a world class public space which focused on bringing life back to the space opposed to a cold and depressing reminder of all those that died.  I think that would have been more constructive in the healing process honor to those we lost — instead of memorializing a p…[Read more]

]]> 0 8358cd17568dbe9bc0e4f27ea06523f1 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Playground Redesign in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/playground-redesign/#post-160479 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:06:14 +0000 http://naturalplaygrounds.com/
Try to be an advocate for this, not stock plastic crap that doesn’t challenge the kids physically nor mentally.

]]> 0 61b41cc4771b44af5f4bb8b5d8065318 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Architects venturing further into landscape design... in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/page/3/#post-160527 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:03:37 +0000 who?

]]> 0 786e818de5777c65623ef8fa116c91b6 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Architects venturing further into landscape design... in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/page/3/#post-160530 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:45:35 +0000 Its our fault if municipalities or towns want an architect or an engineer instead of an LA.  We know what our value is, yet we are perhaps too modest when it comes time to sell ourselves.  Perhaps we need to take the approach of the architect and engineer and grossly oversell ourselves, perhaps then we’ll get the work that is rightfully o…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9a2b114f28b826f013c2621917adeb5 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Architects venturing further into landscape design... in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/page/4/#post-160547 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:20:50 +0000 wow, great and inspiring post.

]]> 0 b924da500d6c65f3637b945442a50021 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Architects venturing further into landscape design... in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/architects-venturing-further-into-landscape-design/page/5/#post-160556 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:49:16 +0000 “Its Only Four Walls and a Roof” — An architectural design seminar by landscape architects.

]]> 0 fcfe271dfaf6a137c5baae72111de1b4 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Some questions from a high school senior in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/some-questions-from-a-high-school-senior/#post-160845 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:28:40 +0000 Both professions aren’t as sexy as they sound.  Most of the work is administration and drafting work, most often of the design of other more senior members of your firm.  If you have a genuine knack for design, I do believe that you will do more of it than others, but it still does not add up to much time.  Most often, the big ideas are co…[Read more]

]]> 0 828b82fa164d3f6a22401176aae7e403 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Some questions from a high school senior in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/some-questions-from-a-high-school-senior/page/2/#post-160846 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:12:00 +0000 Nice catch.

]]> 0 5b14872fe4232cd39f08b176bafde56c Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic How did you get started on the path to where you are now? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/how-did-you-get-started-on-the-path-to-where-you-are-now/#post-160872 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:37:59 +0000 Haha, post of the day.

]]> 0 9092762a61d45488ab7bf02f98a8918d Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Rise & Fall of LA Firms: Did Company Greed Kill Our Jobs? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/rise-fall-of-la-firms-did-company-greed-kill-our-jobs/#post-160926 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:38:08 +0000

]]> 0 df8b28f01f51d01bf5b19037057ed14e Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Rise & Fall of LA Firms: Did Company Greed Kill Our Jobs? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/rise-fall-of-la-firms-did-company-greed-kill-our-jobs/page/2/#post-160946 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:56:49 +0000 I work from a van DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!

]]> 0 0987cf47352cfca62443f99edb00b15b Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Rise & Fall of LA Firms: Did Company Greed Kill Our Jobs? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/rise-fall-of-la-firms-did-company-greed-kill-our-jobs/page/2/#post-160948 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:00:23 +0000 Its a risk having a lot of overhead, because your chances of weathering a poor economy lessen, however when times are good it greatly increases the desirability of the firm from an employee’s perspective when times are good.  Why wouldn’t I want to go to work in a nice environment?  I spend a great portion of my life where I work, so why not h…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f3745fd29ef03858ca04a03a3c9ee01 Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Working out of the box for landscape architects in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE https://land8.com/forums/topic/working-out-of-the-box-for-landscape-architects/#post-160992 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:37:56 +0000 Will you roast your own beans?  If not, I fully endorse Strongtree Organic Coffee Roasters in Hudson, Ny.  Guarantee it will be the best espresso you’ve ever tried. 
 

]]> 0 d0e131e5f762baad8c6c8c861dd925da Jon Quackenbush replied to the topic Transpiration rate master list? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/transpiration-rate-master-list/#post-161057 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:56:28 +0000 This would be an amazing piece of information to have… I hope this data set would be able to specify the age/maturity/size of the tree as well.

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